System having business aware framework for supporting situation awareness

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system having a business aware framework for supporting situation awareness, which provides an RFID business event modeling system having a modeling function that allows a developer to easily define RFID business events required in developing RFID applications in conformance to EPC network standards so that the user can specify the steps of acquiring and processing data using the RFID technology and define whether to infer a situation, thereby conveniently using the invention for applications based on EPC and sensor data.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a system having a business aware framework for supporting situation awareness, which provides an RFID business event modeling system having a modeling function that allows a developer to easily define RFID business events required in developing RFID applications in conformance to EPC network standards so that the user can specify the steps of acquiring and processing data using RFID technology and define whether to infer a situation, thereby conveniently using the invention for applications based on EPC and sensor data.[0003]2. Background of the Related Art[0004]Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is a technology capable of recognizing information on an object using tags responding to radio signals.[0005]The RFID technology can sense information even without coming into direct contact with an object and can sense information by penetrating through obstacles. In addition, inf...

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Benefits of technology

[0022]Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an RFID business event modeling system having a modeling function that allows a developer to easily define RFID business events required in developing RFID applications in conformance to EPC network standards.

[0023]The present invention has been made in an effort solve problems of the RFID technology and the application technology thereof, and another object of the present invention is to provide a system having a business aware framework for supporting situation awareness, which allows a user to specify the steps of acquiring and processing data and define whether to infer a situation, so that the system can be usefully used in applications based on EPC and sensor data.

Problems solved by technology

Since a developer has a lot of difficulties in expressing RFID business events by directly defining expressions of a business in an XML format in conformance to the EPC network standards.

Moreover, such an EPC related technology, i.e., an RFID technology makes it possible to identify an object, but makes it difficult to grasp a state of the object.

If a part serving to perform an interaction with constitutional components of the EPC network architecture is combined with a pure business logic that has nothing to do with the RFID technology in developing an application system, complexity is increased since even a part deeply related to technical processing of the RFID should be taken into consideration when business logic to be processed by an application system needs to be updated in abruptly changing business environments, which makes it difficult to perform maintenance and repair.

In the case of a situation awareness middleware field, a developer suffers from a difficulty in accessing an actual code level and specifically describing functions to be used in certain situations.

In some other situation awareness technique fields proposed in the form of middleware, since the steps of collecting and processing sensor data are not mentioned or mentioned without considering the REID technology, it is uncertain that whether the technology can be put into practice.

In a system that does not support situation awareness, an additional cost is required if an unexpected situation occurs, and thus a loss in business may be made in the end.

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